survey of 40 students at a local college asks, "Where do you buy the majority of your books?" The responses fell into three categories: "at the campus bookstore," "on the Internet," and "other." The results are as follow. Use Excel to develop a 99% confidence interval estimate

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A survey of 40 students at a local college asks, "Where do you buy the majority of your books?" The responses fell into three categories: "at the campus bookstore," "on the Internet," and "other." The results are as follow. Use Excel to develop a 99% confidence interval estimate of the proportion of all of the college students who buy their books at the campus bookstore..

Where Most Books Bought
bookstore bookstore internet other internet other bookstore
other bookstore bookstore bookstore bookstore bookstore other
bookstore bookstore bookstore internet internet other other
other other other other other internet bookstore
other other internet other bookstore bookstore other
bookstore internet internet other bookstore    

 

Enter your answers into the following table: 

  A

B (Type Formula)

Value for B

1

Sample size Select a record in the table and then ctrl+A 40

2

Response of Interest   bookstore

3

Count for Response =COUNTIF(A1:A40,"bookstore")  

4

Sample Proportion    

5

     

6

Confidence Level    

7

Level of Significance    

8

z value    

9

     

10

Standard Error    

11

Margin of Error    

12

     

13

Point Estimate    

14

Lower Limit    

15

Upper Limit    
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